Sentences with phrase «trial on corruption charges»

Besides being embroiled in the MTA crisis, two of his top allies face trial on corruption charges, and both Republican and progressive opponents are emboldened to challenge him.

To add to the image of Albany dysfunction, Senator John Sampson currently is on trial on corruption charges in Brooklyn.

NEW YORK (AP) For the second time in a month, one of New York State's biggest political figures is going on trial on corruption charges.

He told them he's disappointed that they failed to act on measures to change the way billions of dollars in state contracts are solicited and awarded, even though several of Cuomo's former associates are facing federal trials on corruption charges next year.

A lawyer for former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is counting on the U.S. Supreme Court reviewing the case before the once - powerful politician endures a second trial on corruption charges.

He told them he's disappointed that they failed to act on measures to change the way billions of dollars in state contracts are solicited and awarded, even though several of Governor Cuomo's former associates are facing federal trials on corruption charges next year.

Zhang Shuguang stood trial on corruption charges in a Beijing court last week.

Mr. Silver and Mr. Skelos are now awaiting trial on corruption charges, their arrests sending their respective houses of the legislature into chaos.

A lawyer for former Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos told three appeals judges on Thursday his client deserved a new trial on corruption charges based on a more demanding legal standard adopted by the Supreme Court, but faced tough and skeptical questions from the panel.

NEW YORK (WBEN / AP)-- A lawyer for former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is counting on the U.S. Supreme Court reviewing the case before the once - powerful politician endures a second trial on corruption charges.

The «father» of China's high - speed rail system, standing trial on corruption charges in Beijing last week, testified that he solicited bribes from businessmen because he needed money — a whopping 23 million yuan (about $ 3.8 million)-- to burnish his credentials and influence votes in the biannual elections for membership in the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2007 and 2009.

Federal prosecutors revealed the new details about the Columbia University doctor's state of mind in advance of Silver's Manhattan federal trial on corruption charges, which is slated to begin Nov. 2.

With the longtime leaders of the New York State Senate and Assembly facing trial on corruption charges this fall, we've been hearing a new round of calls to clean up Albany.

For the second time in a month, one of New York State's biggest political figures is going on trial on corruption charges.

Former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and his wife, Linda Mangano, stop to look at geese and their goslings as they arrive at the federal courthouse in Central Islip on Tuesday, May 1, 2018, as their trial on corruption charges continues.

Jury deliberations begin in the federal corruption trial of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, and the trial on corruption charges of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his adult son, Adam, continues.

The former Senate leader, Dean Skelos, remains in the Senate but faces a trial on corruption charges in the fall.

Bruno also admitted in the spring of 2009 (while out - of - power and facing trial on corruption charges) that he personally favored same - sex marriage but never brought it the floor of the State Senate because the majority of his conference was against it, stating «This is America, and we have inalienable rights... Life is short, and we should all be afforded the same opportunities and rights to enjoy it.»

Waiting until after the April 1 start of the 2016 - 17 fiscal year could avoid a power struggle in the state Senate during budget negotiations should former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who is also on trial on corruption charges, be found guilty and forced from his seat.

On Friday, a Manhattan federal judge ruled that ex-correction union boss Norman Seabrook's trial on corruption charges will have to wait until late October because of potential new evidence uncovered in an unrelated case in Brooklyn.

The stink of corruption continues to linger over Cuomo's administration, with one former top aide to the governor recently convicted of fraud and accepting bribes, and another headed to trial on corruption charges in June.

Kenneth E. Riddett, who was legislative counsel to the Senate majority for many years, took the stand Tuesday at Bruno's federal trial on corruption charges and spent hours answering questions about the lawmaker's financial disclosure forms that are at the heart of the government's case.

Smith's second trial on corruption charges — the first ended last year in a mistrial — began Tuesday with opening statements.

That race pitted Espada against indicted (and facing trial on corruption charges) Efrain Gonzalez.